Dick I'm not pretending anything - I think you're basing your entire argument on an out-moded idea of class. I suspect that you're declining to explain because you can't. Is your concept of class based on the job you do, wealth, education, where you live.....? I'm a professional writer and I earn a reasonable living, am largely self-educated and I'm an anarchist and a republican, so what does that make me? More to the point, what bearing does it have on my love of folk music?